Yokai Watch 2 is the top-selling game in Japan this week for its seventh consecutive week since launch. The 3DS sequel moved another 77,000 copies, besting new releases like The Last of Us Remastered, Bullet Girls, and Diablo III.

PlayStation 4’s The Last of Us update opened at 30,000 sales, while PS Vita’s sexy third-person shooter Bullet Girls moved 29,000. Diablo III moved over 33,000 across PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.

Hardware sales have dropped compared to last week, the biggest differences being 3DS XL and Wii U, which sold 14,000 and 9,000 less than what it did last week.

Good to see Bullet girls do well.. I love it so far, but I did not like it in the beginning at first since I was not use to controls.

Anime10121

Is there an actual game underneath all the fan service like with Senran Kagura or is it just fan service meal with gameplay as a side dish…?

Luna Kazemaru

Yeah a really shitty game with bad AI and gunplay fuck senran kagura is atleast fun

Anime10121

Lol, welp, guess that answered my question XD !

Shippoyasha

The gunplay is fine actually. The AI could be better but it’s serviceable.

RedSuisei

I haven’t played it, but from what I’ve read in forums, it seems most people who imported and have actually played the game are quite satisfied despite having some flaws, so I suppose it’s not really a bad game.

Alter

I wish they making PvP update, that would be cool.

Saizo

only 2k PS3?!

Anime10121

I’d like Bullet Girls localized… But I’m seriously lol’ing at it doing just as good (or bad depending on who you ask) as The Last of Us XD

Renaldi Saputra

It’s remastered series, so it’s reasonable

sadly it seems XSeed won’t localize it due to their words about sexual fanservice game

desponent

What did they say?

RedSuisei

All they said was they “don’t plan on pursuing games for their fanservice content alone.” Which means if the game is good, they’ll still give them a look.

Renaldi Saputra

But D3 rarely localize games, even giving it to 3rd party to lozalize it

RedSuisei

Then it had nothing to do with what XSEED said regarding fanservicey games.

Because Namco, who owns D3, historically will focus on only so many localization projects, so I’d rather those games come over if they had to pick and choose…

Shippoyasha

Well, yeah. Frankly, Namco really needs to get their act together in general. I’d just love for them to have more projects green lit, or let other localizers have a stab at it. Then again, sitting on the egg tactic seems to be what’s kosher in Japan these days. Only a few publishers really seem very interested in the foreign market.

Budgiecat

Namco? Out of the well known Japanese companies, they’re trying the most and in terms of game sales, making the most.

It’s Sega, Capcom, SNK, Square-Enix, Konami who really have to get their act together.

If I made a list of all the now dead IP’s from Konami, Sega, SNK,S-E and Capcom, you’d probably faint :P

Anime10121

Agree on all fronts (except maybe EDF2, as I’ve never played the series) :P

PrinceHeir

I want Bullet Girls as well :P

Renaldi Saputra

words of the week: YOUKAI WATCH STRONK

http://hatintime.com/ ShadowFang

Well, everyone who said last week, “Hyrule Warriors has only been out two days this week. These numbers are unfair”…. yeah, it’s not getting better.

That’s sad.

Oh well, enough with the collaborations with Tecmo and Namco, Nintendo. Looks like you’re gonna need to let Compile Heart or Tamsoft have their way with a game (complete with costume break mechanic) starring all your girls – Samus, Zelda, Star Fox’s Krystal, etc. – to get Japan onboard the Wii U in a bigger way apparently :P

That was sarcasm! SARCASM! DON’T ACTUALLY DO THAT!

itsjustmeyo

Sad to admit but, we both know that that would actually sell a lot, and I mean A LOT.

http://youtube.com/miyabigaming 武神水樹

Bullet Girls is fun but the game is broken, if you roll and fire you get auto lock and rapid fire on the target. Makes it too easy

Nonscpo

Is that the only thing that makes it broken?

http://youtube.com/miyabigaming 武神水樹

Weapon damage earlier on, it’s weird hitting someone with a rocket launcher and seeing them get up

kurosan9712

In Japan it’s weirder if a person DOESN’T get up after JUST a rocket hit.
Japan is where slicing a girl into 17 pieces STILL doesn’t kill her.

http://youtube.com/miyabigaming 武神水樹

Whatever Sony plans on surprising fans at TGS it better be huge, these numbers are dreadful

MrFinalgamer

Gravity Rush collection on PS4

indra jaya

and soul sacrifice… and freedom wars…. okay now I’m depressed… :(

OverlordZetta

I take it back. THIS is a disgusting idea.

itsjustmeyo

I doubt that would work. Would have to be something bigger than that like a huge JRPG. The PS4 sales will skyrocket anyway once KH 3 and FF 15 are there. They just need to release some Japanese oriented games to fill the void. IIRC Gravity Rush didn’t even sell well in Japan. Think it may have sold over 100,000 copies by now but it definitely wasn’t a success. Not to mention people would just buy it for Ps Vita since it’s cheaper to buy one and people in Japan prefer handhelds anyway.

novurdim

100k is pretty good for a vita-title released almost 2 years ago, you know.

itsjustmeyo

I guess that’s true, but I still doubt that that would change the PS4’s situation in any way (Releasing a collection on the PS4 that is).

OverlordZetta

That’s a disgusting idea.

MrFinalgamer

I wouldn’t be surprised at this point…

http://hatintime.com/ ShadowFang

Come to think of it, I wonder what was the last hugely successful Sony console release in Japan…

Budgiecat

Last successgul Sony console launch in Japan? PS2.

Last successful Sony Console game first week release in Japan?

eh…lemme get back to you on that…

http://hatintime.com/ ShadowFang

yeah, I should’ve clarified the language. “Console release” = “the last game”. I’m curious to know what was the last multi-million selling game for them in Japan…

Had to be something on PS3, though… I’m so depressed at current day numbers I can’t even imagine a guess.

novurdim

erm, Resident Evil 6 sold close to a million… I guess? If you are not talking about sony-published games which is absurd.

Dunno, I think it’s quite enjoyable.
I have to wonder about the Neptune U sales next week, I expect that will sell more.

novurdim

It won’t. Why would it? Re;Birth sold around 30k.

itsjustmeyo

Well, musou games are very popular in Japan and then there’s the fact that Re;Birth was a remake and this is an entirely new game. So yeah I do expect it to sell more.

Also it’s been almost a year since then so yeah the playerbase is a lot higher than it was back then.

OverlordZetta

Musou games have nothing to do with this conversation.

http://hatintime.com/ ShadowFang

Neptunia U, like Senran Kagura on PSV, is a musou-style action game, is it not?

Budgiecat

a really bad one but yeah….

desponent

bad musou? double whammy

novurdim

It is, but it’s extremely weak in terms of musou-gameplay so I doubt it will affect sales much, I expect around 20k.
Also 30k is very well for Bullet Girls, they actually sold out of stock. D3 is more than satisfied.

itsjustmeyo

Neptunia U is considered a musou game. And the people above were discussing Neptunia U’s potential sales to Bullet Girls’ sales. So it has everything to do with it.

Budgiecat

moar like Diablo III and the Last of Us sold too little. they are rehashes though..

Hyrule Warriors is really the disappointment…

And I guess people are really sick of SF IV lol

Luna Kazemaru

tbh didn’t expect d3 to sell alot most people who cared got it on pc

Budgiecat

20 million worldwide yeah…

The Grim Heaper

Someone is upset. Tell us where Bullet Girls touched you.

Luna Kazemaru

it touched me with bad gameplay. I need my 15mins on dateline

Renaldi Saputra

I think the sales number for that kind of game is more or less reasonable

Luna Kazemaru

bleh…yeah just an overreaction from my end

itsjustmeyo

Am I the only one that was really surprised The Last of Us even sold that much? Thought the sales would be abyssmal.

Budgiecat

loli Ellie is moe

itsjustmeyo

2 moe 4 me. I actually think there’s really people that bought the game, expected a moe girl and when she started knifing people and trashtalking everyone just grabbed their disc and broke it.

Budgiecat

tsundare

itsjustmeyo

Please, I played the game, not a single “hmph it’s not like I did it because of you or anything Joel-senpai-sama-thingy-dono-kun-san-chan.” I will give you that she might potentially grow up to be a psychopath. So, well there’s that.

Joel and Ellie run into an abandoned Karaoeke club with a stage and find a generator and jukebox and Ellie uses said DLC outfits to sing and dance in front of Joel – and we now have bumped it to 500k

Luna Kazemaru

this would be ND

Budgiecat

indeed

itsjustmeyo

Now for a nothing-but-fanservice anime (obviously called “Ellie-chan’s Wild Adventure Teehee”) and boom, 600k or probably even more.

Budgiecat

Final DLC side mission: “Quit fussing Ellie! It’s time for your bubble bath!”

Joel and Ellie run into an abandoned Asian massage parlor/ love hotel and use said facilities to clean up.

Use the optional PS Move peripheral (or rotate analog sticks) to oil up and massage Ellie’s sore spots, then give her a bubble body on body soap bath – and sales have now reached 1 million

itsjustmeyo

Excellent. And people say the Japanese gaming industry is at an all time low. Please, they could sell 1 million copies in a few steps.

MrFinalgamer

Joel did say he wanted to be a singer…

desponent

naw, not anime enough 4 japan

MrFinalgamer

Why? Uncharted sold decently over in Japan.

itsjustmeyo

Well seeing as it’s just a simple HD remake of a game that’s barely been out for a year (most likely less than a year in Japan) on a console that’s sold very poorly. So I can imagine Uncharted selling “decently” in Japan since it’s on the PS3 but never expected this to do so well. Unless of course The Last Of us was never even released in Japan to begin with. Entirely different story then.

Mnoz

There isn’t much out for the PS4 in Japan so owners of the console will take anything. The PS4 hardware numbers went down despite having two games in the top 5 means the games were primarily sold to current owners of the system.

itsjustmeyo

I don’t know, I’d still think there would be enough games out on PS4 to avoid buying a remastered game that’s only been out a year. Except if they didn’t play it yet. But why would they buy it new when they can just buy it for like 1/4th of the price on PS3. (That is assuming they do have one which I think the majority of the PS4 owners in Japan do.) Of course There’s still a huge lack of Japanese oriented games. But that’ll come someday.

Wii U went down because Zelda games well never really sell that hot in Japan; I guess they were hoping the mix of Musou would help that matter. Guess not.
Obviously Smash Bros Wii U will spike it up again.

shogunknight

Hopefully its spike in sales last longer

papermario

3DS should take off again with Smash Bros soon

desponent

Even with all those charted PS4 games the machine itself is down by 1K (14%)? C’mon Japan(ese gamers AND developers)…

novurdim

What games?

desponent

I dunno, maybe it has something associated with PS4 on the chart?

novurdim

I can only see two re-releases that noone really needs, especially in Japan. Where did I miss “all those charted PS4 games”?

shogunknight

Hopefully Sonys Japan conference and TGS would make things better next year for them

Last Of Us is ahead of Bullet Girls!? but Bullet Girls is so cute and charming ♥♥♥….>_<

tubers

Maybe there’s a cartoon loli Ellie skin for the Remaster :P

TheBlackRabbit

last of us…is just higher quality i guess..

Alter

Neptune U, TODAY

PrinceHeir

Diablo III UE and THe LAst of US R seems to be doing good!, Bullet Girls yay!! Hyrule Warriors needs some more sales, Ultra Street Fighter IV seems pretty strong! Chaos Head Dual is doing good for a 6 year old game. Yokai Watch is a monster!!

http://ryuz4ki57inenglish.wordpress.com/ Thomas FROEHLICHER

Very impressive for Bullet Girls (sold out it seems) as it seemed it had next to no preorders. Maybe I should buy it since everyone did? That bodes well for Neptune U next week.

Senran Kagura 2 now needs more than half a year to match Shinobi Versus first week sales at current pace. Marvelous, take notes.